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January 07, 2003
Tuesday
 
 
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Brian Micklethwait (London)  Slogans/quotations

I hope that this won’t be a surprise to the reader, but a whole generation has grown up in which lying, deception, and manipulation are just part of the game; a generation where too many people think that responding to a question with, "That depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is" under oath is a sign of cleverness.
- Clayton Cramer (in his article What Clayton Cramer Saw and (Nearly) Everyone Else Missed for History News Network yesterday, about the Michael Bellesiles affair – link via Instapundit)

Comments

Intrusion of privacy can be done by more that the government.


Posted by Bill Griffith at January 9, 2003 10:09 PM